People v. Lloyd

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Dwyer, J.), rendered June 2, 2011, convicting him of murder in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered.

On the morning of January 1, 1991, the defendant allegedly shot and killed a man in Brooklyn. According to the People’s theory of the case, prior to the shooting, the…